Aesthetic August Screenshots

[Islington]

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Themes: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
Wallpaper: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
Icons: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
Programs: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

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[PCaddicted]

Here's my LOLcat wallpaper. I think it's really funny-the cat wants to get my mouse :D

[IWantFroyo]

We are not in August yet. August will begin tomorrow, on Monday. You should have waited another day.

In his timezone, it may already be August.

As for my desktop, its sorta boring as always. 10.04 with all default. I'll update this post when things get more interesting.

[s.fox]

We are not in August yet. August will begin tomorrow, on Monday. You should have waited another day.

Time is relative. In some places it is already August. For example Japan.

[na12]

http://www.dodaj.rs/t/3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.jpg (http://www.dodaj.rs/?3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.png)

Openbox,bmpanel2,conky

[Tibuda]

We are not in August yet. August will begin tomorrow, on Monday. You should have waited another day.

This is an international forum, with people all around the world.
See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?sort=2

[gutterslob]

I have you now!!

http://ompldr.org/tOXBiNQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXBiNQ)

[scouser73]

Here's mine.

[Bandit]

Here are two screen shots of my desktop.
One Clean look and the other a Busy look.. :KS

[el_koraco]

#! Statler, the best distro anywhere, anytime, with some Debian love.

[koleoptero]

http://www.dodaj.rs/t/3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.jpg (http://www.dodaj.rs/?3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.png)

Openbox,bmpanel2,conky
I see some of your bubbles have grown!

I have you now!!

http://ompldr.org/tOXBiNQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXBiNQ)

:lolflag:

[-gabe-noob-]

http://www.dodaj.rs/t/3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.jpg (http://www.dodaj.rs/?3f/2h/47tXLxBE/screenshot-18.png)

Openbox,bmpanel2,conky

How'd you get your conky like that!

[Lucradia]

Meh: http://i.imgur.com/16wtl.jpg

Found wallpaper on one of the *boorus.


I have you now!!

http://ompldr.org/tOXBiNQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXBiNQ)

I need that wallpaper :P

[Famicube64]

i be trollin' :popcorn:

http://i.imgur.com/1Wo6M.png http://omgcheesecake.net/public/style_emoticons/default/TrollFace.png

[el_koraco]

i be trollin' :popcorn:
Don't do it, for the love of god! It's still young, it has so much ahead of it!

[motang]

Well since I still have 13 hours to go for August and this has been created here is mine.

For the weekend I have been using my Asus Eeebox running Xubuntu 11.04

theme: Redmond
window decoration: Redmond
icon set: Tango
wallpaper: nyinuk (http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2649/ny_in_uk.html) from interfacelift


Felt a bit nostalgic to the Windows 98 days. :D

[Quadunit404]

inb4 "You have a lot of desktop icons"

I'll take a screenshot of Linux after I distrohop to OpenSUSE. Yes I'll still be here.

[catlover2]

Here are two screen shots of my desktop.
One Clean look and the other a Busy look.. :KS

What is the window border theme?

[na12]

How'd you get your conky like that!

https://github.com/dany12/my_configs

[darkdawn]

Mine for august, nothing too different from July, only wallpaper!

Clean:
http://i.imgur.com/ACaxu.png

Dirty:
http://i.imgur.com/zeTp7.png

[hoppipolla]

Oops, kinda put this in the wrong thread as it went in July!

Basically a normal desktop I know, but... I love it anyway! ^_^

So pretty!

http://i.imgur.com/re4Uq.jpg


Long live gorgeous lookin' modern Ubuntu!

[stanca]

OK!Fedora 15 Lovelock::)

[hhh]

I have GNOME shell running on Debian Squeeze...

http://s1.postimage.org/2jv38xxg/Screenshot.jpg (http://s1.postimage.org/fb99fgdv/Screenshot.png) http://s1.postimage.org/2kvh2ksk/Screenshot_1.jpg (http://s1.postimage.org/fc9n938z/Screenshot_1.png) http://s1.postimage.org/2l0fom9w/Screenshot_2.jpg (http://s1.postimage.org/fcelv4qb/Screenshot_2.png)

@Rasa, in case you didn't see my post at the end of last month, I was hoping you would give your last GNOME shell screenshot details (except for Conky). Thanks.

[sports fan Matt]

Hoppi, can i please have the wallpaper?

[Tibuda]

Long live gorgeous lookin' modern Ubuntu!

GNOME???? What happened to all the KDE cheering?

[el_koraco]

I have GNOME shell running on Debian Squeeze...


hawdya pull that off? i thought you had to go testing and pin sid and experimental repos.

[Whistling Nixie]

Wallpaper: Carbon Fiber Trans (http://cope57.deviantart.com/art/carbonfibertrans-130405456) by cope57 (http://cope57.deviantart.com/)
(Background colour #61638c)

Theme: Orta (http://skiesofazel.deviantart.com/art/Orta-184118297) by SkiesOfAzel (http://skiesofazel.deviantart.com/)
Selected Items colour changed to #61638c
Icons: Clarity (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clarity?content=135654) by Jakub Jankiewicz (http://gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=jcubic&PHPSESSID=f70047187669eb7413e6cb26e117eed5)
(Canus Dark colour scheme)
MintUpdate icons here (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/elementary+MintUpdate+tray+icon?content=128430)
Docky (http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/how-to-installconfigure-docky-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/) theme: White Glass (for Orta) (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/WhiteGlass+Docky+Theme+for+Orta?content=134782) by Kush Creator (http://gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=kushcreator&PHPSESSID=2842a3d85f7fc64ea266985a93e4502a)
Main font: Ubuntu font

Terminal
Text: #b6bcf2
Background: #212121
Font: Monospace (i.e. the default)

[hhh]

hawdya pull that off? i thought you had to go testing and pin sid and experimental repos.
Not quite, I enabled unstable and experimental and installed gnome-shell. I had a couple of boot warnings afterwards but I did a couple of workarounds, those are solved. I wanted gnome-tweak-tool and the "User Theme" shell extension so I installed them from Launchpad. I had an error where the shell network manager applet wasn't working, I upgraded network-manager-gnome from unstable and, after a couple of scary reboots where I had no network connection, it started working. YMMV.

[Bandit]

What is the window border theme?

Gnome Legacy 2, here a link. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10992808#post10992808)

[el_koraco]

Not quite, I enabled unstable and experimental and installed gnome-shell. I had a couple of boot warnings afterwards but I did a couple of workarounds, those are solved. I wanted gnome-tweak-tool and the "User Theme" shell extension so I installed them from Launchpad. I had an error where the shell network manager applet wasn't working, I upgraded network-manager-gnome from unstable and, after a couple of scary reboots where I had no network connection, it started working. YMMV.

Impressive feat. I actually wiped my Fedora partition, since the ATI drivers are still not working. Don't think I'm gonna be trying Gnome Shell at least until next year.

[koleoptero]

Oops, kinda put this in the wrong thread as it went in July!

Basically a normal desktop I know, but... I love it anyway! ^_^

So pretty!

http://i.imgur.com/re4Uq.jpg


Long live gorgeous lookin' modern Ubuntu!

Good to see you're still with us hoppi. :)

[Frogs Hair]

Theme: Aurora
Window: iMetal
Icons: FaenzaMac
Background: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/055/8/6/Ram_wallpaper_by_pr09studio.png

[BLTicklemonster]

In my timezone, it's still July, but in my head it's 2025.

Nothing amazing here, just a nice wallpaper I just did and some screenlets stuff. I love the way you can mix it up with linux and customize to your heart's content.

Oh, and
Themes: Emerald truglass.
Wallpaper: made it in gimp.
Icons: ummmm, they're cool looking and were on my computer, lol.
Programs: screenlets and ubuntu system panel.

[Dobbie03]

My first for August, not much different from the last July shot:

http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d4267k3

[gutterslob]

I need that wallpaper :PClicky (http://ompldr.org/vOXBhbg/wallpaper-475682.jpg)

[Kexolino]

First one for August:

http://s1.postimage.org/7xti86v8/scrn15.png (http://postimage.org/image/7xti86v8/) http://s3.postimage.org/29r1lol50/scrn16.png (http://postimage.org/image/29r1lol50/)

[Mark76]

Debian ROX

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/5997740024_21efce4aec_z.jpg (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/5997740024_21efce4aec_b.jpg)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/5997188417_05a037d181_z.jpg (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/5997188417_05a037d181_b.jpg)

[Aquix]

Same old conky as last month, and my light summer theme.

http://i.imgur.com/F1vbrs.jpg (http://imgur.com/F1vbr) http://i.imgur.com/0MEvOs.png (http://imgur.com/0MEvO)

[nothingspecial]

August

198999

[ubun2geek]

Mine looks like SNow Leopard - hope tht isn't bad!

[wojox]

New vim color:

[mips]

http://ompldr.org/tOXBwMQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXBwMQ)

[goldshirt9]

#! Statler, the best distro anywhere, anytime, with some Debian love.
love the look, am about to download and try that distro

my W 7 at the moment , simple as i like it http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/W7.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/Screenshot-2-1.png ubuntu 10.04 at the moment.
full re-install due to my error lol. does need work i know

[Famicube64]

http://i.imgur.com/AxYyr.png

Anything but GNOME 2 is crap.

[el_koraco]

love the look, am about to download and try that distro


Watch out, it's easy to get hooked. Debian stable is so stable you just loose the desire to try other stuff.

[na12]

http://www.dodaj.rs/t/10/Jl/JOkoKmY/2011-08-01-1801441280x80.jpg (http://www.dodaj.rs/?10/Jl/JOkoKmY/2011-08-01-1801441280x80.png)

bye-bye bubbles :)

[GSF1200S]

Arch Linux 64bit
Openbox
Fbpanel
Pytyle
Nodoka Midnight Theme (my favorite dark theme)

Left screen is my simple clean screen; right screen is my busy info screen- creates a balance I like. The screenshot where the windows look perfectly organized demonstrates pytyle- on-demand per-workspace or global tiling for Openbox. I will never use a tiling WM or floating WM again- I must have both ;) Including links (imageshack) to the right screen (clean) and the right screen dirty- you can see enough of my left screen as its pretty simple anyways.. By the way, my system name is geekdom, in case youre wondering why I added the dom on the right screen wallpaper.

http://imageshack.us/f/855/screenshot0801201112303.png/
http://imageshack.us/f/4/screenshot0801201112372.png/

[goldshirt9]

nice :)

simple and easy
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/th_Screenshot-4.png (http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/?action=view&current=Screenshot-4.png)

[Frogs Hair]

http://www.dodaj.rs/t/10/Jl/JOkoKmY/2011-08-01-1801441280x80.jpg (http://www.dodaj.rs/?10/Jl/JOkoKmY/2011-08-01-1801441280x80.png)

bye-bye bubbles :)

I like the window buttons !

[goldshirt9]

I like the window buttons !
me to :)
i just couldn't resist this

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/th_Screenshot-3.png (http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/forums/?action=view&current=Screenshot-3.png)

[sffvba[e0rt]

Now been downgraded to a netbook (notebook wifi died) so got a brand spanking new Natty install, sporting a shiny new 3.0 kernel :)


404

[Toz]

August starts out looking like this:

http://ompldr.org/tOXB2aA (http://ompldr.org/vOXB2aA)

[Copper Bezel]

Now been downgraded to a netbook (notebook wifi died) so got a brand spanking new Natty install, sporting a shiny new 3.0 kernel :)

Aw, and I was feeling cool just for moving up to 2.6.39 rc4. (Which was entirely out of necessity, as 2.6.38 wanted to kill my computer.)

Toz, I'm liking the 2D / "grunge" desktop style now, so I'll ask; could we have a link to that wallpaper?

[GSF1200S]

Aw, and I was feeling cool just for moving up to 2.6.39 rc4. (Which was entirely out of necessity, as 2.6.38 wanted to kill my computer.)

Toz, I'm liking the 2D / "grunge" desktop style now, so I'll ask; could we have a link to that wallpaper?

Interestingly enough, I had to move back to 2.6.38 from 2.6.39- there is a bug in the intel audio driver that causes one to sound like a chipmunk when using a microphone (skype). 2.6.38 has been great..

[GSF1200S]

August starts out looking like this:

http://ompldr.org/tOXB2aA (http://ompldr.org/vOXB2aA)

Hah! I like your desktop. Is that XFCE panel and DockbarX? Pretty nice setup..

[Toz]

Aw, and I was feeling cool just for moving up to 2.6.39 rc4. (Which was entirely out of necessity, as 2.6.38 wanted to kill my computer.)

Toz, I'm liking the 2D / "grunge" desktop style now, so I'll ask; could we have a link to that wallpaper?

Here you go: http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.com/wallpapers/13/5157.jpg

[Toz]

Hah! I like your desktop. Is that XFCE panel and DockbarX? Pretty nice setup..

Yes, XFCE panel only. Clarity icons.

[GSF1200S]

Yes, XFCE panel only. Clarity icons.

Ahh, I figured that was a dock in the panel (dockbarX under xfapplet).. I did see your mention in the office document of the icons.. Nice setup..

[Copper Bezel]

GSF1200S: Now you said that, I had to check, because I do quite a bit of VOIP. No chipmunk noises, though. = )

Toz: Many thanks!

[GSF1200S]

GSF1200S: Now you said that, I had to check, because I do quite a bit of VOIP. No chipmunk noises, though. = )

Toz: Many thanks!

For me, it was hit or miss- sometimes I sounded that way, sometimes I didnt. Ubuntu may have patched this problem if there is a patch available; I experienced this issue on Arch and downgraded to 2.6.38 :)

[Frogs Hair]

Bluish Greenish Darkish

[Bandit]

http://i.imgur.com/AxYyr.png

Anything but GNOME 2 is crap.

Dont worry. I will eventualy make G3 look good, or i will just go to XFCE instead :KS

[koleoptero]

August starts out looking like this:

http://ompldr.org/tOXB2aA (http://ompldr.org/vOXB2aA)

The faenza libreoffice style looks good.

[Famicube64]

Dont worry. I will eventualy make G3 look good, so just go to XFCE instead :KS

no u

[walkerk]

No change.

[Bandit]

no u

my bad typo.. I ment "or".. so sorry about that..

[KiwiNZ]

My August Desktop for my iMac

[ddnev45]

Wmfs to start the month.

[hhh]

http://www.dodaj.rs/?10/Jl/JOkoKmY/2011-08-01-1801441280x80.png

bye-bye bubbles :)
Very slick, wall link please?

[na12]

Very slick, wall link please?

http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/eCO-Wallpapers-153472704

[gutterslob]

Just a has-been. Haven't had anything new in months.

http://ompldr.org/vOXEyOA.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXEyNw)

[el_koraco]

Mine. Plesantly boring.

clean http://ompldr.org/tOXEzOQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXEzOQ)

dirty http://ompldr.org/tOXEzOA (http://ompldr.org/vOXEzOA)

[Erik1984]

Just a has-been. Haven't had anything new in months.

http://ompldr.org/vOXEyOA.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXEyNw)

Never change a winning theme :)

[hhh]

@na12, thanks. I should have guessed it was lassekongo, he's always first rate.

[koleoptero]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-02/TH-snapshot.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-02/snapshot.png)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-02/TH-snapshot1.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-02/snapshot1.png)

[muzieca]

My beloved Openbox in action again :D
http://ompldr.org/tOXE0Nw (http://ompldr.org/vOXE0Nw) http://ompldr.org/tOXE0OA (http://ompldr.org/vOXE0OA)

[Erik1984]

-cut pictures-


Nice task bar, how to get it dark and transparent? Cool Wallpaper also, it's from the default set but that set certainly has some nice walls.

Mine for now:
- Kubuntu with KDE 4.7 and mainly the default settings. Only changes: clocks on desktop, icon for Kickoff and of course the Wallpaper.
http://i.imgur.com/UsVTgl.jpg (http://imgur.com/UsVTg)

[koleoptero]

Nice task bar, how to get it dark and transparent? Cool Wallpaper also, it's from the default set but that set certainly has some nice walls.

It's the volatile plasma theme. I haven't changed anything about it.

[Erik1984]

It's the volatile plasma theme. I haven't changed anything about it.

Thanks, I found it, just hadd to install it from the "Get new themes" menu.

[koleoptero]

Thanks, I found it, just hadd to install it from the "Get new themes" menu.

That's how I get things in KDE, I'm too lazy to actually download them and install them myself.

[fontis]

You know.. I have to say I'm a bit surprised.
This Unity-Gnome3 mess made me want to take a break from everything, but I figured I might as well try KDE before ditching hope all together, and man was I surprised.

KDE is provides such a great experience now compared to how it was when 4 was released, and I must say so far I'm loving it. It "just works".

[rhade_bv]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13473532/Poze/Spa%C8%9Biul%20de%20lucru%201_014.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13473532/Poze/Spa%C8%9Biul%20de%20lucru%201_015.png
Theme : http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Victory+%28Strikes+Again%29?content=123936
Icons : http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AwOken?content=126344
Conky : modified after http://markusssss.deviantart.com/art/Conky-Mod-Mural-204060993?q=boost%3Apopular%20conky&qo=125 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13473532/Altele/conkyrc%20mural.tar.gz)
Wallpaper : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13473532/Altele/embraced__no_planet_by_casperium-d1hc5hz.jpg

[Simian Man]

KDE is provides such a great experience now compared to how it was when 4 was released, and I must say so far I'm loving it. It "just works".

+1. I'm surprised anyone still uses Gnome.

[fontis]

+1. I'm surprised anyone still uses Gnome.


Yeah, I think I read somewhere that before KDE4, KDE was the most popular DE but after the 4 fiasco people jumped ship to Gnome (I kinda remember this as I switched too back then) and that's when the "Gnome popularity" rose. But now thanks to Gnome 3 / Unity people are now jumping ships again and to much surprise, they really are impressed by KDE (since they've been doing their thing to polish KDE a lot since the 4 transition).

Anyway, here's my Win7 setup.
http://ompldr.org/tOXFkeg (http://ompldr.org/vOXFkeg)

[ilovelinux33467]

+1. I'm surprised anyone still uses Gnome.

Yeah so am I.

[Frogs Hair]

E17 straight from the software center to 11.04 . Much to learn !

[Dark Aspect]

Ubuntu 10.4 running on a Soyo KT600

http://ompldr.org/tOXFmeg (http://ompldr.org/vOXFmeg)

Arch Linux running on an Asus 1001P

http://ompldr.org/tOXFmeQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXFmeQ)

I don't think I'll ever replace my two aging desktops the way the economy is. By the way I am officially and respectfully leaving Ubuntu once 10.4 falls out of support because of Gnome 3.0. It makes more since to me to do a minimal install and install just one GUI then to install KDE on top of, or remove, Gnome 3.0

Debian and Arch all the way here


Just a has-been. Haven't had anything new in months.

http://ompldr.org/vOXEyOA.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXEyNw)

What type of Desktop Environment/WM is this, is it the awesome window manager?

[gutterslob]

What type of Desktop Environment/WM is this, is it the awesome window manager?
ScrotWM (pronounced Scrotum in Irish, fyi)
http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/scrotwm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scrotwm

I like your netbook's Arch setup, btw. :)

[Dark Aspect]

ScrotWM (pronounced Scrotum in Irish, fyi)
http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/scrotwm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scrotwm

I like your netbook's Arch setup, btw. :)

Thanks, I usually like your setups as well I think. I think remember seeing a screen shot of of yours a while back based on your avatar lol. I normally model my Arch installs after minimalists desktops like yours and others but I alway end up with unnecessary eye candy. I am gonna look into ScrotWM and try and leave compiz for my main Arch system (Asus A8N-E). Its just running Arch+plain Openbox now cause I haven't had the time to configure it.

[chucky chuckaluck]

Howdy, gang. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Loving the iMac, though I kind of miss not changing themes and icon sets every ten seconds. Hope you all are doing well.

[fontis]

Howdy, gang. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Loving the iMac, though I kind of miss not changing themes and icon sets every ten seconds. Hope you all are doing well.

Traitor.

[Lucradia]

Clicky (http://ompldr.org/vOXBhbg/wallpaper-475682.jpg)

Thanks man!

[Islington]

Howdy, gang. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Loving the iMac, though I kind of miss not changing themes and icon sets every ten seconds. Hope you all are doing well.

what no vitualbox? :D good to see you man.


might as well post, just a wallpaper change really:



http://i.imgur.com/CAGhTl.png (http://wstaw.org/m/2011/08/03/plasma-desktopXb1989.jpg)

[Dobbie03]

Nothing amazing to see here:

http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/art/Another-OSX-Styled-Desktop-246795970

[el_koraco]

new wall.
edit - just realized that the gtk, icons, and openbox theme don't show at all :D

http://ompldr.org/tOXFpcQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXFpcQ)

[KiwiNZ]

My August MacBook desktop.

[xc3RnbFO8P]

Welcome back CC :)

Nice @Dobbie03 (the apple dock is awfull thou)

Kubuntu my future desktop

http://ompldr.org/tOXFqMw (http://ompldr.org/vOXFqMw)

[ilovelinux33467]

Fedora 15 KDE on my laptop

http://i.imgur.com/G1Cu3.jpg

[sffvba[e0rt]

My August MacBook desktop.

Awesome looking Sabre <3


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[gutterslob]

Howdy, gang. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Loving the iMac, though I kind of miss not changing themes and icon sets every ten seconds. Hope you all are doing well.Hey Chuckles!! How ya been?
You know, just because you've walled up your garden, doesn't mean you can't post here no more. I miss your quirky wallpapers. The bear in the cab was one of your finest moments. :)

[Kexolino]

All these KDE desktops make me want to try it out again, but my 1GB RAM is just not enough.. :roll:

[ilovelinux33467]

All these KDE desktops make me want to try it out again, but my 1GB RAM is just not enough.. :roll:

I've had KDE running fine before in 1GB RAM. Disabling things like Nepomuk and Strigi could help performance.

[motorcity909]

Gone summery green for August. Few screenlets and nice transparent menu bars. Sat for half an hour the other day changing the opacity by + or - 1% until I was sure!

[sffvba[e0rt]

All these KDE desktops make me want to try it out again, but my 1GB RAM is just not enough.. :roll:

Give it a try... you will be surprised ;)


404

[el_koraco]

All these KDE desktops make me want to try it out again, but my 1GB RAM is just not enough.. :roll:

Disable Akonadi, Stringi, Nepomunk and change graphics from openGL to raster, and you'll run just fine.

[Kexolino]

I'll give it another try then :popcorn: if I remember right I've had those things disabled though (or most of them)... I guess the GIMP eats most of my memory on KDE.

Edit: Some screenshots, since I talk too much :-\"This is so white, it hurt my eyes at first

http://s2.postimage.org/19aoow0bo/scrn17.png (http://postimage.org/image/19aoow0bo/) http://s2.postimage.org/19avb1eas/scrn18.png (http://postimage.org/image/19avb1eas/)

[Rasa1111]

Still on the Gaia theme for GS.
and still haven't booted into Unity since installing this. lol
Big Thanks to "cbowman"/aka Chuck for gNatty! :KS

199157
199158
199159
199160

No time to dig up the details.
If you want them, just ask.

oh, p.s.... lol
My conky seems to have moved up, and nothing I change will move it back down!
the regular methods of moving it affect nothing. ! :/

[sffvba[e0rt]

Finally got Frugalware 1.5 to install (this is in VBox)...

The release is in RC but it looks very good right out of the box:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59930315@N03/6005471074/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/59930315@N03/6005471074/)
(bigger link, Flickr is acting up, can't get the link to the thumbnail)


404

PS - Moar later, now I got to go get ready to put some meat on the barby... the sun is almost down and all of the peeps fasting can then not take offense when I am outside making some good foodies :D

[Rasa1111]

Finally got Frugalware 1.5 to install (this is in VBox)...

The release is in RC but it looks very good right out of the box:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59930315@N03/6005471074/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/59930315@N03/6005471074/)
(bigger link, Flickr is acting up, can't get the link to the thumbnail)




You got a link to that WP?
Tineye gives me no results..
and I cant find it except in smaller images, or screenshots.
Help? lol

:)

[Quadunit404]

My August MacBook desktop.

You must really like them old war birds.

[Arzk]

A simple dark approach to netbook ui:
http://i5.aijaa.com/t/00862/8416936.t.png (http://aijaa.com/v.php?i=008628416936.png)http://i5.aijaa.com/t/00159/8417029.t.png (http://aijaa.com/v.php?i=001598417029.png)

Lucid Netbook with GlassyBleu theme and Humanity icons. Panel built with Talika, globalmenu and gnome-window-applets to push the screen real estate to the max.

[gutterslob]

Just playing around with a lower contrast palette and other dull sh*t

http://ompldr.org/vOXFyag.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXFyZg)

[chucky chuckaluck]

Traitor.

I like to think of myself as a Capt. Louis Renault for the the new millenium. "Round up the usual suspects."



what no vitualbox? :D good to see you man.

Virtualbox is a little beyond my skill set. Nice to see you, as well.



Hey Chuckles!! How ya been?
You know, just because you've walled up your garden, doesn't mean you can't post here no more. I miss your quirky wallpapers. The bear in the cab was one of your finest moments. :)

Doing good. "Walled up in my garden"? What a lovely image and pretty true. I was always a serenity junkie to some extent.
I'll never forget finding the bear in the cab pic. The urgency of the bear was the best part, almost as if he were saying, "follow that duck on the scooter, and step on it!"

[John-B]

Here is what I see/use ;)
Ubuntu classic 11.04
A custom theme with Clearlooks controls, custom colors, Clearlooks2-
Squared-Berries window borders, GNOME icons
Wallpaper is a photo by me :)
and some color tweaking with GNOME color chooser.



http://johnbdigital.com/temp/screenshot.jpg

[koleoptero]

Howdy, gang. Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Loving the iMac, though I kind of miss not changing themes and icon sets every ten seconds. Hope you all are doing well.

Hey Chuck, nice to see you're with us :) We have indeed missed your wallpapers.

[sanderella]

Clicky (http://ompldr.org/vOXBhbg/wallpaper-475682.jpg)

I pinched that one, too. Thanks!):P

[sffvba[e0rt]

You got a link to that WP?
Tineye gives me no results..
and I cant find it except in smaller images, or screenshots.
Help? lol

:)

I will see what I can do... might have to try and get it from the VM... will figure something out and let you know ;)

WAIT! - Here is all you may need - http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/artwork/wallpaper/ You are looking for 1.5 ;)

404

[Frogs Hair]

More fun with E17 , I'm glad I decided to try Enlightenment . The shelf as its called can be set up with individual launchers like Unity on all sides of the screen and multiple shelves can be used . Any left click anywhere on the desktop brigs up a full menu with all applications . I like Unity , but this is a nice change .

[Rasa1111]

I will see what I can do... might have to try and get it from the VM... will figure something out and let you know ;)

WAIT! - Here is all you may need - http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/artwork/wallpaper/ You are looking for 1.5 ;)

404

aww you rock! :guitar:
Thanks man! :KS <3

[benc1213]

I've had KDE running fine before in 1GB RAM. Disabling things like Nepomuk and Strigi could help performance.

I want to try out kde too. What would be the best distro for kde?

[ilovelinux33467]

I want to try out kde too. What would be the best distro for kde?

It is really up to you to decide. I personally like Fedora because the KDE it uses is vanilla (close to upstream). However there is also Kubuntu, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, Mandriva/Mageia, Debian, etc... that you can run KDE on. If you wanted a distro which has a good KDE implementation out of the box then openSUSE would be my choice.

[Copper Bezel]

Yeah, I think this is the thing I'm doing now. Very 2D, aided by the hipster-tee-shirt wallpapers, and everything Gnome-Shell-without-being-Gnome-Shell.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/clean-thumb.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/clean.png)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/dirty-thumb.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/dirty.png)

God, I can't get over those clean little overlay scrollbars.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/Expos%C3%A9-thumb.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/Expos%C3%A9.png)

Requisite Exposé shot.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/workspaces-thumb.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17749392/Screenshots/110803/workspaces.png)

Distressed tee shirts. No special significance to the Apple logo; I just liked the backdrop.

Edit: I've developed a new love for the default Zoom minimize animation, perhaps because it seems smoother in the new Compiz, and I love that windows explode when closed from Scale. Pop them like bubbles. Gorgeous.

[benc1213]

It is really up to you to decide. I personally like Fedora because the KDE it uses is vanilla (close to upstream). However there is also Kubuntu, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, Mandriva/Mageia, Debian, etc... that you can run KDE on. If you wanted a distro which has a good KDE implementation out of the box then openSUSE would be my choice.

I was actually thinking about fedora. Would is there anything about the fedora version thats better than say Arch?

[ilovelinux33467]

I was actually thinking about fedora. Would is there anything about the fedora version thats better than say Arch?

There are quite a few good things about Fedora. Like Delta updates (Yum Presto). Unfortunatly though Fedora 15 doesn't currently have KDE 4.7 so you are stuck on 4.6.5 until it either becomes an official update or it goes into the kde-unstable repo (which should be soon hopefully).

[Lightstar]

August

198999

Oooooh where did you get that wallpaper? care to share?

[Whistling Nixie]

[/URL][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581457/]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6140/6006581457_c75f7a59ec_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581459/in/photostream)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581457/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/6006581459_821067555a_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581459/)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581459/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/6006581465_e9c5b29994_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581465/)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581465/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/6006581473_ab8e84fd9d_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581473/)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581473/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/6006581479_b32c65f8fc_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581479/)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581479/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/6006581485_e34264587d_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581485/)
Linux desktop customisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581485/) by transitmapsetc (http://www.flickr.com/people/46479845@N06/), on Flickr

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/46479845@N06/6006581459/in/photostream)

[Simian Man]

KDE on my laptop.

[benc1213]

There are quite a few good things about Fedora. Like Delta updates (Yum Presto). Unfortunatly though Fedora 15 doesn't currently have KDE 4.7 so you are stuck on 4.6.5 until it either becomes an official update or it goes into the kde-unstable repo (which should be soon hopefully).

I'm downloading Fedora KDE right now. Thanks for the advice. :)

[ilovelinux33467]

I'm downloading Fedora KDE right now. Thanks for the advice. :)

You're welcome :). Let us know how it works out for you.

[Rasa1111]

If you're used to (and like) how Ubuntu does things..
You should go with Kubuntu 11.04.

[KiwiNZ]

You must really like them old war birds.

I certainly do I have a collection of nearly 100 Die cast replica's

[Dobbie03]

Welcome back CC :)

Nice @Dobbie03 (the apple dock is awfull thou)

Kubuntu my future desktop

http://ompldr.org/tOXFqMw (http://ompldr.org/vOXFqMw)

Yeah I realised how rubbish it looked so I changed it not long after posting that screenshot.

[el_koraco]

continuing
http://ompldr.org/tOXIyZw (http://ompldr.org/vOXIyZw)

[Famicube64]

http://i.imgur.com/24FjH.png

[nick_goodfate]

199238199239

[Noz3001]

http://i.imgur.com/ZPxKrl.jpg (http://imgur.com/ZPxKr)

http://i.imgur.com/8fcShl.jpg (http://imgur.com/8fcSh)

[Enigmapond]

Conky, AWN, Emerald, Buttonized icon theme, Xplanetfx for the wallpaper...

[Quadunit404]

I certainly do I have a collection of nearly 100 Die cast replica's

Awesome. Wish I had that many die cast replicas. Instead all I have are stupid helicopters... I don't even like helis to begin with :|

[sffvba[e0rt]

A look at Frugalware 1.5 Mores - RC2 (to go with my previous screen shot).

Youtube (http://youtu.be/4znKHMJkeEw)

[hhh]

No time to dig up the details.
If you want them, just ask.
I guess you've been busy and missed my 2 requests, or else you're just ignoring me. ;) Although my time with gnome-shell was brief (IMO they need to make workspace switching more efficient, and it's still kind of unstable), I'd love the details of your last one from last month for when I try the shell again (except for conky, I never use conky any more). Thanks!...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=198822

@Simian Man, nice. That was always my favorite wallpaper from the Bisigi themes.

@chucky, hola! A pleasant surprise to see Carrie Ann's rosy cheeks again (at least that's who I always thought it was).

[hhh]

I gave up on gnome-shell for now, but I liked the theming I used on it enough that it was the basis for this Xfce theme...

http://s3.postimage.org/kwz6y2is/Screenshot_08052011_01_06_32_AM.jpg (http://s3.postimage.org/44iwwr5f7/Screenshot_08052011_01_06_32_AM.png) http://s3.postimage.org/kx0uhf0k/Screenshot_08052011_01_20_29_AM.jpg (http://s3.postimage.org/44iykahwz/Screenshot_08052011_01_20_29_AM.png)

[Rasa1111]

I guess you've been busy and missed my 2 requests, or else you're just ignoring me. ;) Although my time with gnome-shell was brief (IMO they need to make workspace switching more efficient, and it's still kind of unstable), I'd love the details of your last one from last month for when I try the shell again (except for conky, I never use conky any more). Thanks!...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=198822

@Simian Man, nice. That was always my favorite wallpaper from the Bisigi themes.

@chucky, hola! A pleasant surprise to see Carrie Ann's rosy cheeks again (at least that's who I always thought it was).


aww Im sorry man.
I just totally missed it apparently.
Since using gnome shell in gNatty, I havent experienced it being unstable at all!
It's been working quite flawlessly actually. :)

I've got to crash right now but I will definitely post the info in the a.m. :)
Sorry again man.
Tomorrow I promise (or later today i guess) lol
quick like~ Have you heard the new Thievery Corp Album? Culture of Fear?
I just got it yesterday and it's pretty sweet. :)

Til mornin,
~ G'night buddy.

[Kexolino]

I gave up on gnome-shell for now, but I liked the theming I used on it enough that it was the basis for this Xfce theme...

http://s3.postimage.org/kwz6y2is/Screenshot_08052011_01_06_32_AM.jpg (http://s3.postimage.org/44iwwr5f7/Screenshot_08052011_01_06_32_AM.png) http://s3.postimage.org/kx0uhf0k/Screenshot_08052011_01_20_29_AM.jpg (http://s3.postimage.org/44iykahwz/Screenshot_08052011_01_20_29_AM.png)

Hey man, can I just ask how you installed Talika? I tried to install it from source, but it says my intltool is too old (I'm on #!). And is that Xfwm? :KS

[hhh]

@Rasa, np. There's no rush, I probably won't try gnome-shell again till it moves out of Debian experimental. But that is one badass mofo theming job. And no, I'll need to check out that album, STAT!

@Kexolino, I successfully compiled it when I first tried it over a year ago, but I was on sidux at the time. Since I've moved to squeeze I just use the deb file, it installs no problem for me using either Gdebi or dpkg...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/talika/files/talika-0.50/

As to the other question, no, I'm using Compiz and Emerald. The Emerald theme I based off of one in the old emerald-themes package, which I could only find in the Ubuntu archives (and I'm glad I saved the link for it, I can't even find it with a Google search anymore)...
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emerald-themes/emerald-themes_0.2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb

You can do something very similar with Xfwm by using Totem or Biz from the xfwm4-themes package, available in both Ubuntu and Debian. You can even do customizations, but it's a PITA... it's like 30 xpm files that you have to edit in GIMP, whereas emerald-theme-manager is all just menus, sliders and color-pickers. The thing with Emerald though is shadow rendering can be very wonky, for instance I've seen the top shadow render fine but half way down the sides the shadow cuts off and the rest of it is very faint. But Compiz/Emerald lets you customize the shadow color/opacity, radius and offset while Xfwm's shadows are just there. Compiz's shadow rendering/window matching is pretty damn wonky on its own, but after struggling for a long time with it I finally got a shadow to render under Xfce4-notifyd. STOKED!

[nankura]

Heres my Desktop setup

Im using the following

Provided a look at the clean desktop and Window / icons
XFCE 4.8 Session not the xubuntu session, but ofc, xubuntu 11.04
Emerald Theme manager
Emerald - SlicknesS Theme
Compiz latest + all plugins and extensions
Docky for the left and bottom dock
XFCE4 Panel for the top panel
Icons are From the Moebuntu Theme website - anime theme mixed with ubuntu icons basic
Wallpaper - random anime chick from google

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2003/screenshot0805201107420.th.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/801/screenshot0805201107420.png/)

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3355/screenshot0805201107422.th.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/153/screenshot0805201107422.png/)






(http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-08052011-073459pm.php)

[hhh]

@nankura, great to see the old Firefox mascot again, "Mozilla".

[Kexolino]

@Rasa, np. There's no rush, I probably won't try gnome-shell again till it moves out of Debian experimental. But that is one badass mofo theming job. And no, I'll need to check out that album, STAT!

@Kexolino, I successfully compiled it when I first tried it over a year ago, but I was on sidux at the time. Since I've moved to squeeze I just use the deb file, it installs no problem for me using either Gdebi or dpkg...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/talika/files/talika-0.50/

As to the other question, no, I'm using Compiz and Emerald. The Emerald theme I based off of one in the old emerald-themes package, which I could only find in the Ubuntu archives (and I'm glad I saved the link for it, I can't even find it with a Google search anymore)...
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emerald-themes/emerald-themes_0.2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb

You can do something very similar with Xfwm by using Totem or Biz from the xfwm4-themes package, available in both Ubuntu and Debian. You can even do customizations, but it's a PITA... it's like 30 xpm files that you have to edit in GIMP, whereas emerald-theme-manager is all just menus, sliders and color-pickers. The thing with Emerald though is shadow rendering can be very wonky, for instance I've seen the top shadow render fine but half way down the sides the shadow cuts off and the rest of it is very faint. But Compiz/Emerald lets you customize the shadow color/opacity, radius and offset while Xfwm's shadows are just there. Compiz's shadow rendering/window matching is pretty damn wonky on its own, but after struggling for a long time with it I finally got a shadow to render under Xfce4-notifyd. STOKED!

Thanks! I can't even remove the the shadows from Xfwm :lolflag: I fiddled with it and tried to find a solution, but in the end I gave up and posted a thread just now... Though I can see that Compiz doesn't use too much memory either, so maybe I should just go with it.

[Rasa1111]

@Rasa, np. There's no rush, I probably won't try gnome-shell again till it moves out of Debian experimental. But that is one badass mofo theming job. And no, I'll need to check out that album, STAT!




haha, Thanks man!
Glad you like it. :D

Alright, Here is the pertinent info..

Clarity icons~>
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clarity?content=135654
Using preset color> Lux Caeruleus

Shell Theme~
GNOME-Shell-Gaia->
http://half-left.deviantart.com/art/GNOME-Shell-Gaia-207574700

GTK~
AdwaMINTa> http://malvescardoso.deviantart.com/art/AdwaMINTa-245391785

Windows/Metacity~
MintLiner~ http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MintLiner+gtk3+theme?content=141466

WP~ AquaDreams~ http://deadpxl.deviantart.com/art/Aqua-Dreams-Wallpapers-61934627

& last , but not by any means least.. AWN! lol :)

(note: DeviantART seems to be 'down' at the moment)
Can't get a single dA page to load right now.. hmm :???:

ohh yeah, that album is pretty niice.
Feels more 'laid back' than the rest.... I guess...
But definitely niice.
I mean, it's Thievery Corp! How can they fail? lol :P

uhp.. dA is back up I guess. lol :o)

[el_koraco]

Wallpaper change. GTK is Ma.Fa., Openbox is Dark Star, icons Faenza Darkest, conky and urxvt configs stolen and rehashed.
Clean:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyZg (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyZg)

Dirtae:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyag (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyag)

[Famicube64]

This is not GNOME 2. I am scared. :(

http://i.imgur.com/P323p.png

[Mark76]

Which distro is that?

Try Debian. We still have Gnome2 :)

[Famicube64]

Arch. I'd use Debian but I really don't care about Linux enough to bother. :P It's just something to tinker with.

[goldshirt9]

Wallpaper change. GTK is Ma.Fa., Openbox is Dark Star, icons Faenza Darkest, conky and urxvt configs stolen and rehashed.
Clean:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyZg (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyZg)

Dirtae:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyag (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyag)
mighty fine again

[Dobbie03]

This weekends:

http://i.imgur.com/uPMta.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JrqAV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sb5tY.jpg

[DLM955]

Well I keep tinkering with conky so I mite as well change wallpaper too





I don't know if this will last the rest of the month or not

[el_koraco]

mighty fine again

Openbox is awesome, you can make it look and behave any way you want, and it flies.

[nankura]

Wallpaper change. GTK is Ma.Fa., Openbox is Dark Star, icons Faenza Darkest, conky and urxvt configs stolen and rehashed.
Clean:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyZg (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyZg)

Dirtae:
http://ompldr.org/tOXJyag (http://ompldr.org/vOXJyag)


this is an amazing setup, i really want to use openbox. its the only WM were i havnt seen reports of screen tearing to do with nvidia and compositing with no permanent fix ( i suffer this and a phew of my friends )

But openbox, there hasnt been one report. openbox seems to run really well for everyone

its just so much work to setup, and i need desktop icons for shortcuts

[el_koraco]

Well, install a distro premade with an Openbox setup, like MadBox, CrunchBang, Archbang, Peppermint...

[hhh]

its the only WM were i havnt seen reports of screen tearing to do with nvidia and compositing with no permanent fix ( i suffer this and a phew of my friends )
Sorry, not the case. Openbox isn't a compositing WM, so you have to use xcompmgr, xcompmgr-dana or cairo-compmgr. I've had/seen issues reported with all 3.

[Whistling Nixie]

A more traditional Mint setup (after a fresh install... it's a long story)

Linux Mint 9 (The current LTS)

Wallpaper: Linux Mint Circles (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12427)
Theme: Mint-X-Metal (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=134015)
(Tooltip colour changed to #c8e8b5)
Icons: Clarity (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clarity?content=135654)
(Dark Canus colour scheme)
Main font: Ubuntu font

Terminal
Text colour: #accd8a
Background colour: #212121
Font: Monospace (i.e. the default)
bsdgames shown

[Frogs Hair]

Window: Ambiance Blue
Theme: Focus Pocus
Icons: Faenza Wolfe
Conky: My Modified
Back Ground: Lamborghini Concept-5-Exterior

[benc1213]

I've been trying out kubuntu and I have to say I love KDE.
http://i.imgur.com/AfA89.png (http://imgur.com/AfA89)

[ilovelinux33467]

Fedora 15 with KDE 4.7.0 on my laptop

199335

[benc1213]

Fedora 15 with KDE 4.7.0 on my laptop

199335

It looks good. :)

[ilovelinux33467]

It looks good. :)

Thanks! Your screenshot looks good as well :)

[koleoptero]

Well I keep tinkering with conky so I mite as well change wallpaper too





I don't know if this will last the rest of the month or not

sudo apt-get install ttf-inconsolata

and use that font in your conky. I believe it will look even better.

[AwesomeMoose]

Here is the desktop that I just finished. Custom wallpaper made in GIMP, custom Conky by me, icons are Faenza. This is in Openbox running in AntiX M11 Core. The dock at the bottom is Docky (which I got working by running xcompmgr in the startup file), the wallpaper is handled by Nitrogen and the icons are done through iDesk.

http://ompldr.org/tOXMxeg (http://ompldr.org/vOXMxeg)

[goldshirt9]

A more traditional Mint setup (after a fresh install... it's a long story)
Linux Mint 9 (The current LTS)
Wallpaper: Linux Mint Circles (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12427)
Theme: Mint-X-Metal (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=134015)
(Tooltip colour changed to #c8e8b5)
Icons: Clarity (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clarity?content=135654)
(Dark Canus colour scheme)
Main font: Ubuntu font
Terminal
Text colour: #accd8a
Background colour: #212121
Font: Monospace (i.e. the default)
bsdgames shown

a _ wht not use a more up to date version :confused: nice shots though. :)
i have tried and love mint , "everything runs straight out of the box" so to say :)
unfortunately there are so many versions to choose from and when you are starting off its a bit of a mine field to choose which to install :P:P

would be nice for a easy explanation of why the differences between them , for us noobs


AwesomeMoose Re: Aesthetic August Screenshots
Here is the desktop that I just finished. Custom wallpaper made in GIMP, custom Conky by me, icons are Faenza. This is in Openbox running in AntiX M11 Core. The dock at the bottom is Docky (which I got working by running xcompmgr in the startup file), the wallpaper is handled by Nitrogen and the icons are done through iDesk.

http://ompldr.org/tOXMxeg (http://ompldr.org/vOXMxeg)

that is mighty bright on the eye :) .

[nerdtron]

This weekends:

http://i.imgur.com/uPMta.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JrqAV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sb5tY.jpg


What icon set are you using?

[cra1g321]

A more traditional Mint setup (after a fresh install... it's a long story) Linux Mint 9 (The current LTS)

Very nice Mint Desktop, icon set looks great with the Mint theme, LM9 FTW :D

[cra1g321]

http://s2.postimage.org/19aoow0bo/scrn17.png (http://postimage.org/image/19aoow0bo/) http://s2.postimage.org/19avb1eas/scrn18.png (http://postimage.org/image/19avb1eas/)

Very nice dock, im liking the wallpaper to :cool:

[Whistling Nixie]

a _ wht not use a more up to date version
Simple: newer does not necessarily mean better. YMMV, but I'm more satisfied with Mint 9 than subsequent versions of Mint, and even more so than the Ubuntu versions they were based on. Generally speaking, the LTS (long term support) releases are more stable than the other ones.

[and1bskbl72]

Here

[Dobbie03]

What icon set are you using?

Faenza mac with the modified version

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=faenzamac#/d422bdl

[ninjaaron]

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha3, running TWN. You know you want this.

[chucky chuckaluck]

Hey Chuck, nice to see you're with us :) We have indeed missed your wallpapers.

Thanks. I'll post some more, though it's a little austere with 1920x1080.



@chucky, hola! A pleasant surprise to see Carrie Ann's rosy cheeks again (at least that's who I always thought it was).

Riyo Mori, my true identity. (I just use a guy's name to throw folk off the scent.)

[el_koraco]

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha3, running TWN. You know you want this.

No xclock, no glory.

[goldshirt9]

Here

unity keeps evolving :D


ninjaaron Re: Aesthetic August Screenshots
Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha3, running TWN. You know you want this.

not with my knowledge of linux :o:o:o:o:o:o
but looking good

[Rasa1111]

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha3, running TWN. You know you want this.

hmm..

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2010/204/7/b/What_is_this_I_don__t_even_by_NajMeTender.jpg

[takisan]

11.04. Ubuntu Classic. Had a tiny bit of work to get the Hardy Human Theme, but I got it, it works, and it still looks nice. Giving TWM a try.

The reason why I have the Hardy Human (geh. that's hard to say) theme set is that the first Ubuntu version that I really used was Hardy. The exact same reason why I prefer Windows XP over 7. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. (Although, I'm only 15, but still ... )

[scouser73]

Trying out Fedora 15.

[Kexolino]

#! Statler, the best distro anywhere, anytime

http://s1.postimage.org/2chhq9138/scrn19.png (http://postimage.org/image/2chhq9138/) http://s1.postimage.org/2chmov2kk/scrn20.png (http://postimage.org/image/2chmov2kk/)

[Dobbie03]

http://s1.postimage.org/2chhq9138/scrn19.png (http://postimage.org/image/2chhq9138/) http://s1.postimage.org/2chmov2kk/scrn20.png (http://postimage.org/image/2chmov2kk/)

Looking good.

[stanca]

Switched to Pinguy OS and I really love it: :D

[Dobbie03]

Switched to Pinguy OS and I really love it: :D

You should try Luninux OS http://luninuxos.com/

[el_koraco]

snip

Weren't you getting the XFCE version a run around? The compositing stuff got to you? Anyway, awesome. i just did a fresh install over the whole disk.

Here's mine, celebrating going #! only. The same as before, only running 2.6.38 and Radio Space fonts all around.

Clean
http://ompldr.org/tOXNlbA (http://ompldr.org/vOXNlbA)

Dirty
http://ompldr.org/tOXNlbw (http://ompldr.org/vOXNlbw)

[revinkey]

been working on the wallpaper today. i like how it came out. just installed new docky theme for august and everything else is the same. :popcorn: request links or info, i will be happy to supply.

[nerdtron]

Faenza mac with the modified version

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=faenzamac#/d422bdl


Thanks a bunch!

[Kexolino]

Weren't you getting the XFCE version a run around? The compositing stuff got to you?

I was, because I was thinking it would be less work than Openbox... But then that compositing thing happened, and there seems to be no solution. I realized that setting up Openbox doesn't take longer than XFCE to me anyways.. Then again, I'm not doing anything special.

[Dobbie03]

I like this setup.
http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d45pon7

[NightwishFan]

Debian 7 (Testing) with KDE 4.6. I didn't configure much yet as I just installed it.

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/9757/kdeg.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/kdeg.jpg/)

[goldshirt9]

I like this setup.
http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d45pon7
that's awesome :D

[NightwishFan]

I like this setup.
http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d45pon7

I would swear that is OSX... Great job.

[Dobbie03]

Thanks guys.

[koleoptero]

I've done this before.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/Shots/TH-August_screen_is_brown.png (http://theb4rd.deviantart.com/art/August-screen-is-BROWN-251484686)

[sffvba[e0rt]

I've done this before.

Love the wallpaper :)

[fontis]

I've done this before.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/Shots/TH-August_screen_is_brown.png (http://theb4rd.deviantart.com/art/August-screen-is-BROWN-251484686)

You gave up on KDE?

[nick_goodfate]

I've done this before.


http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/48560

[koleoptero]

You gave up on KDE?
Yeah, my laptop runs hot with it. I hadn't switched permanently to it, it was just an experiment, to check it out see how it goes lol. My ubuntu 10.10 installation was/is intact.

http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/48560
That's not quite it, that's a cropped version of the one I have.

Love the wallpaper :)
It's nice, if you want it I can dropbox it for you. :)

EDIT: Clicky (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/Widescreen_World_map_004653_.jpg)

[NightwishFan]

Customised KDE a bit now.

Clean:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4223/kdenew.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/kdenew.jpg/)

Dirty:
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8052/kdenew2.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/kdenew2.jpg/)

[sffvba[e0rt]

Customised KDE a bit now.

Clean:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4223/kdenew.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/kdenew.jpg/)

Dirty:
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8052/kdenew2.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/kdenew2.jpg/)

Got to get me another screen... :)

[NightwishFan]

Got to get me another screen... :)

:) Interesting avatar.

[Frogs Hair]

E17 on 11.04 again .

[sffvba[e0rt]

E17 on 11.04 again .

Have you tried Bodhi Linux?

[Frogs Hair]

Have you tried Bodhi Linux?

No , I have visited the site though . The core packages in the repository work well enough to give E17 a try. I have a mix of Gnome and E17 applications. It's hard to find themes that work on Ubuntu , but I like the default theme . I have been experimenting with the color change and settings options. Like any new environment , it's a matter of figuring out where all the settings are and how to use them .

[sffvba[e0rt]

No , I have visited the site though . The core packages in the repository work well enough to give E17 a try. I have a mix of Gnome and E17 applications. It's hard to find themes that work on Ubuntu , but I like the default theme . I have been experimenting with the color change and settings options. Like any new environment , it's a matter of figuring out where all the settings are and how to use them .

Well the themes that come with Bodhi are awesome... and it is built on Ubuntu so best of both worlds :)

[Frogs Hair]

Well the themes that come with Bodhi are awesome... and it is built on Ubuntu so best of both worlds :)

I will consider it when 11.10 rolls around . I enjoy the ability to switch back and forth at the moment . I can leave enlightenment without reboot by using the exit option . I can't do the same when logged into Ubuntu .

[gutterslob]

R.I.P Gary Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Nixon)

http://ompldr.org/vOXNyOA (http://ompldr.org/vOXNyNA)

[BigCityCat]

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk14/bigcitycat/desk.jpg

[goldshirt9]

Have you tried Bodhi Linux?
that has changed a lot since the last time i used it :D

[Kexolino]

More or less done:

http://i.imgur.com/K5FkSs.jpg (http://imgur.com/K5FkS)

[hakermania]

More or less done:

http://i.imgur.com/K5FkSs.jpg (http://imgur.com/K5FkS)
the option menu reminds me of tinycore :P

[desnaike]

It's been quite awhile but hope u like.

GTK Imetal Leopard Krytarik light
Border Plasticblend
icons Faenzamac
Wallpaper Druid Princess at this site, http://www.zastavki.com/eng/Fantasy/wallpaper-9566-18.htm

http://db.tt/4GN6ldj
http://db.tt/2fk86Gj

[hhh]

@AwesomeMoose, I don't care for Docky, Conky or Faenza. And I mean it sincerely when I say that looks great.

@chucky chuck, lol, @ least I picked a dancer. Dude, you're smoking hot!

http://wallpaperdvd.blogspot.com/2011/03/riyo-mori-miss-universe-2007-1.html
http://byrev.org/images/2007/10/miss-universe-japan-riyomori.jpg

[Bandit]

Another from me. :-)

[DLM955]

sudo apt-get install ttf-inconsolata

and use that font in your conky. I believe it will look even better.

thank you I have been looking for fonts for conky
I just tried that font and it solved a lot of problems I had with font colors!!!! Freemono was causing some strange colored fonts on this laptop.They were more like rainbow colored fonts,using bold help it a little.But your font works perfect.

got bored and made this glass logo with gimp

http://i.imgur.com/mo2HWs.png (http://imgur.com/mo2HW)

sorry hope this is better

[el_koraco]

DLM, you need to either post thumbnails of the uploaded pictures, or attach them here.

here's me with a new wallpaper

http://ompldr.org/tOXQzbw (http://ompldr.org/vOXQzbw)

[koleoptero]

DLM, you need to either post thumbnails of the uploaded pictures, or attach them here.

here's me with a new wallpaper

http://ompldr.org/tOXQzbw (http://ompldr.org/vOXQzbw)
I'm thinking of giving #! another go. I miss the lack of updates :D

[el_koraco]

There was a major batch of updates from backports yesterday. Now every bug Audacious had is fixed, and the rest of the stuff was libraries. Debian stable is the best.

[darkdawn]

Mine for August:
The best distro i ever had was #! 10 Openbox, but i wanted to test XFCE 4.8, so i chose to install Debian testing XFCE - netinstall, and its working like a charm, no problems what so ever!
But some part of me misses openbox
Icons = ACYL = Any Color You Like 0.9.3
Theme = Axiom

http://ompldr.org/tOXQ3bQ (http://ompldr.org/vOXQ3bQ)

http://ompldr.org/tOXQ3bg (http://ompldr.org/vOXQ3bg)

[mips]

There was a major batch of updates from backports yesterday. Now every bug Audacious had is fixed, and the rest of the stuff was libraries. Debian stable is the best.

When I decide to update my desktop (which will be soon) I think I'm gonna install Debian Stable. I'll keep Arch running on my laptop.

[DLM955]

I'm thinking of giving #! another go. I miss the lack of updates :D

You really should try again statler seems to be very stable.
The only problem I have is learning to configure it.


http://i.imgur.com/s1emjs.png (http://imgur.com/s1emj)

[el_koraco]

When I decide to update my desktop (which will be soon) I think I'm gonna install Debian Stable. I'll keep Arch running on my laptop.

You're an Openbox user, right? Check out #!, it's got a pretty awesome openbox configuration from the get-go.

[stanca]

E17 on 11.04 again .
Me too! :D You should try this ppa. (https://launchpad.net/%7Emerlwiz79/+archive/e17-svn)
It's perfect.:P

[mips]

You're an Openbox user, right? Check out #!, it's got a pretty awesome openbox configuration from the get-go.

Yip but only on the laptop, I'm happy to run a full DE on my desktop. I will probably go the cruchbang route and add xfce to it I reckon.

[el_koraco]

Squeeze and Crunchbang, by extension, are using XFCE 4.6. 4.8 is in Wheezy. Just a heads-up.

[hhh]

@Rasa, said it in PM but not public, thanks for the theme details.

@Koleoptero and others, I pulled the Vlad Studio logo out of that wall if you're interested...

http://s4.postimage.org/eska1nxg/Widescreen_World_map_004653.jpg (http://s4.postimage.org/3yehzuqtv/Widescreen_World_map_004653.jpg)

[Frogs Hair]

Me too! :D You should try this ppa. (https://launchpad.net/%7Emerlwiz79/+archive/e17-svn)
It's perfect.:P

I tried that ppa and I got a missing package error :confused: I am running 64x and I don't know if that is /was the problem . I really enjoy experimenting with e17 but I'm not ready to install Bodi Linux yet . :) I hope it will be available for the next Ubuntu release .

[llua+]

http://i.imgur.com/SJZn6.png (http://i.imgur.com/huBpM.jpg)

[sffvba[e0rt]

http://i.imgur.com/SJZn6.png (http://i.imgur.com/huBpM.jpg)

<3 the wallpaper... almost looks like something from BEEP!

[Frogs Hair]

Today's

[northwestuntu]

http://i.imgur.com/SJZn6.png (http://i.imgur.com/huBpM.jpg)

openbox?

[Dobbie03]

My new one:
http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d45xwxv

[Whistling Nixie]

See text editor window for details

[goldshirt9]

My new one:
http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d45xwxv

very nice and clean , just how i like it :):):):)

[nankura]

all the screenshots in here look amazing but question

what exactly does Aesthestics mean? like, i just did a new unity setup/look but im not using compiz or anything, so im not sure if i can post it here

[Dobbie03]

very nice and clean , just how i like it :):):):)

Thanks!

[gutterslob]

Mine for August:
The best distro i ever had was #! 10 Openbox, but i wanted to test XFCE 4.8, so i chose to install Debian testing XFCE - netinstall, and its working like a charm, no problems what so ever!
But some part of me misses openbox
Icons = ACYL = Any Color You Like 0.9.3
Theme = Axiom

[snip]

Good stuff. I like the overall contrast and tone.

__________________________________________________

CWM on the lil' Netbook.

http://ompldr.org/vOXRpeg.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXRpeQ)

Photo + background: http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/

[NightwishFan]

edit..

[darkdawn]

Good stuff. I like the overall contrast and tone.

__________________________________________________

CWM on the lil' Netbook.

http://ompldr.org/vOXRpeg.png (http://ompldr.org/vOXRpeQ)

Photo + background: http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/

Thank you :)

[urukrama]

WindowMaker.

http://i.imgur.com/wZLwSl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/wZLwS.jpg)

[Mark76]

I like that :D

Where did you get the theme and icons from?

[llua+]

openbox?
xfce

[urukrama]

I like that :D

Where did you get the theme and icons from?

I'm assuming you are referring to my screenshot :) Those are the moblin icons. The gtk theme is Shiki-Jetblack, and the WMaker theme I set up manually to match the Gtk theme colours.

[Mark76]

Well yes

[sffvba[e0rt]

all the screenshots in here look amazing but question

what exactly does Aesthestics mean? like, i just did a new unity setup/look but im not using compiz or anything, so im not sure if i can post it here

aesthetic ~ adj uncommon
1. relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics
aesthetic values
2. concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
the aesthetic faculties; an aesthetic person; aesthetic feeling; the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success
3. aesthetically pleasing
an artistic flower arrangement
aesthetic ~ noun very rare
1. (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
he despised the esthetic of minimalism

Basically they needed a word that started with an A to go with August...

[Islington]

all the screenshots in here look amazing but question

what exactly does Aesthestics mean? like, i just did a new unity setup/look but im not using compiz or anything, so im not sure if i can post it here

:) go ahead and post mate. we like everything in here. Doesn't even have to be Linux.

[nankura]

Oh ok , well i recently switched from xubuntu ( posted a screenie b4 ) to ubuntu 11.04

heres my setup

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2421/yness.th.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/89/yness.png/)

Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)

Distro: Ubuntu 11.04 32bit
Theme: Slickness Black 0.9
Icons: LaGaDesk-BlackWhite-III
No Compiz features enabled besides the inbuilt features in unity. just basic 11.04, i find it enough eye candy as it is
Sexy girl wallpaper: Google. I loooove google for wallpapers :D

:D

[koleoptero]

WindowMaker.

snip (http://i.imgur.com/wZLwS.jpg)

Windowmaker was my favourite wm back in 2000-2001. Even though I could barely use it. :D

-------------------------------------

Posting for the sake of postage.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-09/TH-Screenshot.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-09/Screenshot.png)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-09/TH-Screenshot-1.png (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1612038/2011-08-09/Screenshot-1.png)

[goldshirt9]

answered already